Brangelina are building a reputation for excess
Brangelina own a home in New Orleans, and a château in the south of France. They sold their Malibu mansion to Ellen Degeneres, but Brad’s helping an architect plan a new California residence for the brood.
And now they’ve bought a $10 million house in Richmond, West London, the Sun reports.
Homes in that price range have names, at least in the U.K.; this one is Whornes Place. Brad ’n’ Angie rented it ($48,000 a month) last year, while he was over there making the zombie movie World War Z. This year and next she’ll be making three movies in a row in the U.K.
Whornes Place sounds acceptable: “15th-century wooden beams,” indoor pool, etc. It’s Tudor-looking, although the Tudors would not have had those life-size topiary elephants out front. The house is well-known among celebs: Life & Style mag says Johnny Depp and Catherine ZetaJones have been tenants.
It’s all over between Lady Gaga and Vampire Diaries himbo Taylor Kinney, says Us Weekly.
They were an item for about 10 months. The mag says the pressure of her schedule killed the romance.
You have to think Scarlett Johan- sson is doing pretty well, careerwise. Household name, big paydays, glamorous life. So why would she stoop to getting herself a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
As you know, if you’re even, say, assistant key grip on a non-primetime show on the Macramé Channel, your agent can write a cheque and, bingo, you have a star: it’s basically a thing you buy.
So why would Scarjo bother? I can’t help thinking of her fling with Sean Penn last year: I’m afraid there’s something seriously wrong with this woman’s judgment.
Just wait till she learns to moonwalk: Adele’s album, 21, has overtaken Michael Jackson’s Thriller on the list of Britain’s best-selling albums ever.
Gabriel Aubry has gone to court, asking a judge to make Halle Berry pay $500,000 in legal fees he owes because of their custody war over 4-year-old Nahla, reports Tmz.com.
The Montreal model also wants Halle to pay $20,000 a month in child support. This is a little odd since Berry, now canoodling with French actor Olivier Martinez, wants to take the child to France with her, which would leave Aubry with no access. That case is still pending.
Gabe’s 36, Halle’s 45.
The Avengers opened to positive reviews, mostly, but the influential A.O. Scott of the New York Times wasn’t onside: the movie’s “failures are significant and dispiriting,” he wrote. Scott was tough on Samuel L. Jackson, saying his character Nick Fury was “more master of ceremonies than mission commander.”
Fury was the right word for Jackson’s riposte, via Twitter, as reported by Nikki Finke of Deadline. com: “Avengers fans, N.Y. Times critic A.O. Scott needs a new job! Let’s help him find one! One he can actually do!”
Scott (the “A.O.” stands for Anthony Oliver, by the way) responded, also via Twitter, that “I feel more flattered than threatened” by Jackson’s bluster.